Squad sheets: Aston Villa v Wolverhampton Wanderers

Gérard Houllier marked his first Premier League game in charge of Aston Villa with a win over Wolves in September but little has gone right since. Villa have won only five of their subsequent 23 league games and there has been an endless stream of problems off the field, the latest being a team-bonding session that turned into a drunken row. With Villa's defence ravaged by injury, Wolves will view this as the ideal opportunity to defeat their neighbours for the first time in 31 years and drag them deeper into relegation trouble. Stuart James